I had interned with the DT team in Delhi. The entire team is super friendly. I had worked under Yash Vermani sir's team, which was a wonderful experience. I got good work; at no point was it overwhelming or burdensome. The team was always there for any doubts or queries, which created an amazing learning environment. I had personally worked quite a lot with Ishita ma'am and Kanika ma'am. Everyone was approachable, even through email and quick to respond. Furthermore, everyone was highly skilled, making it an intellectually stimulating environment to work in. Overall, it was an amazing experience.

The ideal way to go about it would be to start with a Chamber first, work/learn for a couple of years and then try moving to a better Senior to build your profile (since you mentioned you are not coming from a great college or internship experience).

In all honesty (sorry if it is harsh), it is unlikely that you'll get a Firm, at this level. The best way is to build work experience reflecting competence and then try making a lateral move maybe 3-4 years down the line.

Cold mailing is unlikely to work, seek help from whoever you can (friends, relatives, peers) just to get that first job so you have a foot in the door. Even if the job doesn't look promising, take it as a starting point and try networking as much as possible thereon.

Also, if ultimately you feel these suggestions are not practical for you, try falling back and explore Judiciary. DJS has fairly regular examination cycle.

It's going to be a long road so have faith in yourself, all the best.

Original enrollment number is retained but the period of suspension will not be included while calculating your seniority. Your enrollment certificate that you had submitted to the state bar council at the time of suspension will be returned to you with an endorsement on its back side stating the period of suspension. You will have pay the enrollment fees again which varies from state to state and no, they don't follow the SC's directions regarding the fee amount! You will be charged a state bar council fee, national bar council fee plus welfare fee.

those are all just your opinions. do you think its fair to mark things trollish simply because you disagree with them? surely you arent pretending that there is anything close to RightOpinion TM on this stuff?

Wokeness is not only a thing because people you dislike/loathe/condemn think it is. Very liberal centrist people have problems with whats been happening in academia for a long long time. This conversation/debate goes back decades. its only on steroids now. And if you dont know what John Rawls has to do with this stuff, or what martha nussbaum has to say to judith butler you likely are just poorly educated.

Because this is how things stand for us:

- If you can’t afford a good private law school, you must either be among the tiny fraction of merit listers at the top NLUs, or join a crumbling second-tier NLU or TLC.

- Even at top-tier NLUs, the competition for good jobs is getting very tough, because the legal market has not grown sufficiently. On top of that, JGLS has captured a big chunk of jobs, because of the influence of their college and their own contacts.

- If you can’t crack a decent law firm, litigation is an option. But you earn nothing in the first decade and your progression is hard if you are a non-nepo kid.

So isn’t it better to go for a STEM career?

A 2023 survey conducted by the Harris Poll in partnership with my research team found that 80 percent of Gen Z adults — that is, those born after 1997 — were worried that their generation was too dependent on technology. Seventy-five percent were concerned about social media’s impact on young people’s mental health, and 58 percent said that new technologies were more likely to drive people apart than bring them together.

We found that most Gen Z adults — 68 percent — reported feeling nostalgic for eras before their lifetime. Seventy-three percent were drawn to media, styles, hobbies or traditions from those eras, and 78 percent said they believed that new technologies and products should incorporate ideas and design elements from these periods. Moreover, roughly two-thirds reported that exploring eras that predate their lives helped them when they were stressed out about modern life or anxious about the future.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/opinion/gen-z-technology-nostalgia.html

Hmmm… So Gen Z has gone from “OK Boomer” mockery to “Bring back the 90s” nostalgia. One way of looking at it is that as Gen Z has matured, they have realised the vacuousness of their era. Actually, the fault is not theirs. It was the tech and media companies that manipulated Gen Z into getting addicted to social media, while also flooding them with trends like auto tuned music, cringe influencers, hyper sexualised celebs, radical social justice politics etc. All this addled their brains.

Will we see cultural conservatism make a comeback now?

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the European Union’s landmark data privacy law, effective since May 2018. It’s considered the world’s strongest framework for digital data protection.

It protects

1. Personal Data

GDPR protects personal data, meaning any information that can directly or indirectly identify a person.

Examples:

Basic identity info: name, address, ID numbers

Online data: IP addresses, cookies, location data, device IDs

Sensitive data: health information, genetics, biometrics, political opinions, religious beliefs, sexual orientation

🔹 2. Rights of Individuals (Data Subjects)

It gives people extensive rights over their data:

Right to be Informed – to know when and how their data is collected and used.

Right of Access – to request and receive a copy of their data.

Right to Rectification – to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.

Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten") – to have data deleted when it’s no longer needed or consent is withdrawn.

Right to Restrict Processing – to limit how data is used in certain situations.

Right to Data Portability – to obtain data in a structured, machine-readable format and transfer it to another service.

Right to Object – to refuse processing for marketing, profiling, or research.

Rights on Automated Decision-Making & Profiling – protection from decisions made solely by algorithms (e.g., loan rejections).

3. Obligations for Organizations (Data Controllers & Processors)

GDPR requires businesses and organizations that handle EU citizens’ data to:

Collect data only for specific, explicit, and legitimate purposes.

Use the minimum data necessary (“data minimization”).

Ensure data is accurate and up to date.

Store data only for as long as necessary (“storage limitation”).

Apply strong security measures to protect data.

Obtain clear, informed, and unambiguous consent.

Notify authorities and users of data breaches within 72 hours.

Appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO) in some cases.

4. Cross-Border Data Transfers

Data leaving the EU can only go to countries with adequate protection or under strict safeguards (e.g., Standard Contractual Clauses).

In comparison. How does India's Digital data protection act fare ?

The post was an attempt to either troll or propagandise or both; it's on an overtly culture war / dog whistle issue about wokeness, which is not about LI's mission to help your lawyers in their career. No constructive interesting discussion is likely to flow (and this wokeness thing only such a disproportionately big deal because MAGA and the anti-woke activists have made it their main thing).

Moderators, you are unutterably, unbelievably stupid. Marking a comment with selected extracts of somebody else's writings quoted as 'trollish' - that too, extracts which represent the authors' opinion. To add insult to injury, you have marked quotes from the London Times as 'trollish'! The very same newspaper that V.K. Krishna Menon, whom people on the left love, once described (in that legend of a speech about Kashmir made at the UN) as the world's most trusted newspaper. The Times of London continues to be a high quality news source and you place a comment quoting from and citing it (without commentary) as 'trollish'? Anyone using LI after this will have to get their brains operated on to check for rot.

Saw this: https://www.instagram.com/p/DMHrn-Up8UT/?img_index=1

Is the maintenance good? Are the hours restricted? Does everyone get a chance?

I am a final-year law student from Bengaluru. My parents moved here only for my education, and I was always an above-average student. I did my bachelor’s in arts with the sole intention of preparing for civil services, but due to family circumstances, I had to join LL.B. I gave two UPSC attempts with all my effort, but I couldn’t clear them.

Now, I have completely stopped UPSC preparation and am fully focusing on law. Unfortunately, I am from a tier-4 law college with no alumni network in law firms. In the past two years, I have managed to do only three internships, and I am desperately trying to get an assessment internship. I have sent more than 200 emails to law firms, partners, and chambers, but till today I haven’t received a single positive response.

With high expectations from my family, I am under constant pressure, yet I am still struggling to get even one opportunity. What makes it harder is that many of my friends are getting internships by lying on their resumes, while I am left behind. Sometimes it feels like it’s better to remain unemployed for a year than to get caught lying.

Every Sunday, I spend my whole day just mailing firms in hope of a chance. The frustration has been piling up, and I had no one to share this with. Today, I thought this might be the best place to let it out.

Any advice would mean a lot.

I suggest that you study global trade and supply chains at MBA level rather than practice international trade law, which is not at all a viable field for lawyers in India. There is good demand for this subject in international and Indian companies and you might end up in a strategy role as you advance in your career, which would pay really well. Don’t waste your good years on international trade law.

After clearing my interview was asked to work for two years! As an intern. Lol. I asked directly my chances at an offer - was told will think about it. After finding out there is a difference even between the stipend given to NLU and Non NLU kids. Refused to go. Hopefully they find NLU kids willing to intern for 2 years.

A part time PhD is usually for people with an established career. Who have extra time and income to do a PhD. On the other hand people just out of grad school are expected to do a full time PhD. Also, a JRF is always given preference over others not just in phd but in professor recruitment.

PhD across the world is a peanuts paying endeavour. Unless you enter a grant or funded project of the government. This is usually for STEM, very rarely for law. As a fresher with a pg and net will fetch you anything between 23k to 35k per month. JRF is more. Also, after 8 years when you apply for a promotion from assistant to associate professor, a PhD is mandatory. So instead of waiting 8 years, do it now. Moreover, in a few years, because of the competition, PhD may become mandatory from asst prof itself. So better to just get done with it.

A PhD is a final degree, and it's a weird place between student and scholar. You aren't expected to produce a Noble Prize research, but you are supposed to use it as a launch pad for future research work. That is why a PhD is 3 to 6 years. It's upto you in the end.

I am a fifth-year law student graduating in June 2025. My experience so far has been heavily focused on trademark prosecution and litigation, having worked with top-tier IP law firms such as Anand & Anand, Remfry & Sagar, and K&S Partners. In addition, I have completed advanced courses including CopyrightX from Harvard and have authored multiple international articles.

However, despite this background, I have yet to see concrete job prospects, which has been unsettling. I am now considering a switch in practice area but am unsure which field would be both highly rewarding and provide solid job opportunities before graduation. I am ready to put in long hours, as long as the work is challenging and well-compensated.

Any advice would be highly appreciated.

No real change will happen. These universities will on paper double the number of seats and reserve half. Very few from actually marginalised castes will be able to get in due to financial constraints. So the Reserved seats will largely go vacant and the classes will be similar as before.

Dude, seriously? You work since 2021, and are unsure if you should go for some dingbat senior who is against you taking up your independent matters? Are you for real or is this a rage-bait? Assuming this isn't for your sake, suppose the prospective senior says "no" (insert the Bugs Bunny meme) what are you gonna do with the matters presently on your VP? Return papers?

I mean this with complete goodness of heart. If despite 4 years in the profession, such questions torment you, please consider if you should still stay in the legal field, let alone litigation. This field is brutal. Your naivety will burn your career or whatever to ashes. You might be academically sound to survive for some years. Can your general personality back you up though?

You have to go back to the drawing board man. Don't waste your youth and life life this

Let me break it to you, my friend:

Your career is majorly defined by you and not the college. You will see failures from NLS and success from MD University; the Courts treat all equally. Since you’ve already gotten into a fairly decent college, don’t leave it only because it isn’t an NLU. Also, your college being in Delhi already puts you a few steps ahead of many Tier 2/3 NLUs and that location advantage is huge for internships etc.

Please bear in mind that TIME is the most precious currency in this profession. Don’t waste a year, because five years down the line, that one “extra year” could be used for exploring a new practice area, LLM, work in a different chamber, or anything you can't calculate presently. Focus on building substance: internships, mentorships, court exposure, and consistent learning.

Needless to mention, none of this is applicable if you are some HNI's son/daughter.